2.5 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Nillup · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Nillup
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Nillup compared to the rest of the country. This sparsely populated area is dominated by family groups, with the typical home holding 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.5
—
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Nillup — higher than 50% of areas.
| Nillup | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 6288, WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 16% of residents live alone, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 25.4%. While two-person homes are the most common at 36%, larger households of five people make up another 16% of the area.
16.0% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Nillup, the largest group is 2 people at 45%, followed by 1 person (20%) and 5 people (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is very stable here, with 58.1% of families being couples with children. Notably, there are no one-parent families, a figure far below the national average of 14.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Nillup, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 39%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Nillup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51115/nillup/topic/family-households